..This study aimed to investigate the role of smoking behavior on the food intake of men and women, including the smoking habits of their partner...

Changes in community and individual level psychosocial coronary risk factors in the Danish MONICA population, 1982-92

Merete OslerInstitute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkScand J Public Health 30:36-40. 2002

..Myocardial infarction incidence declined by 3-5% per year from 1982-92 in the Danish study population of the WHO MONICA project. This study examined whether psychosocial coronary risk factors changed in the population during this period...

Income inequality, individual income, and mortality in Danish adults: analysis of pooled data from two cohort studies

Merete OslerDepartment of Social Medicine, Copenhagen Center of Prospective Population Studies, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, Denmark, CopenhagenBMJ 324:13-6. 2002

..To analyse the association between area income inequality and mortality after adjustment for individual income and other established risk factors...

Socioeconomic position and smoking behaviour in Danish adults

M OslerInstitute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkScand J Public Health 29:32-9. 2001

..This study analyses how two dimensions of socioeconomic position, an individual (education) and a structural (occupation) indicator, are associated with ever, current and ex-smoking...

No inverse association between fish consumption and risk of death from all-causes, and incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged, Danish adults

..The less favorable trend in smoking prevalence in women compared to men may be due to lower cessation rates. We analyzed determinants of spontaneous smoking cessation with particular reference to gender differences...

Socioeconomic status and trends in alcohol drinking in the Danish MONICA population, 1982-92

M OslerInstitute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkScand J Public Health 29:40-3. 2001

..To examine trends in alcohol drinking in different educational groups...

..To examine the relation between unemployment rates in area of residence and all-cause mortality, taking the individuals' unemployment experience and a number of social and behavioural factors into account...

Impaired childhood development and suicidal behaviour in a cohort of Danish men born in 1953

..Thus, we wanted to investigate the association between smoking behaviour and intakes of selected healthy foods in men and women with special focus on differences and similarities between the two genders...

A longitudinal study of food intake patterns and obesity in adult Danish men and women

L H PoulsenDepartment of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, DenmarkTob Control 11:246-51. 2002

..To determine whether adolescent smoking behaviour is associated with their perceived exposure to teachers or other pupils smoking at school, after adjustment for exposure to smoking at home, in school, and best friends smoking...

Relative validity of fruit and vegetable intake estimated by the food frequency questionnaire used in the Danish National Birth Cohort

..To examine whether fruit and vegetable consumption in pregnancy is associated with birth weight in a Western population...

Job loss and broken partnerships: do the number of stressful life events influence the risk of ischemic heart disease in men?

Margit KriegbaumDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkAnn Epidemiol 18:743-5. 2008

..The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the accumulated number of job losses and broken partnerships (defined as the end of cohabitation) on the risk of fatal and nonfatal events of ischemic heart disease (IHD)...

Marital status and twins' health and behavior: an analysis of middle-aged Danish twins

..This study examines the influence of cognitive function and change in cognitive function during adolescence on schizophrenia and bipolar disorders in adulthood and explores possible mechanisms for any associations...

Social gradient in the metabolic syndrome not explained by psychosocial and behavioural factors: evidence from the Copenhagen City Heart Study

..Psychosocial stressors may mediate the effect of social status on the metabolic syndrome (MS). The paper explores this hypothesis in a random sample of the general population...

Childhood IQ in relation to later psychiatric disorder: evidence from a Danish birth cohort study

G David BattyDepartment of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkBr J Psychiatry 187:180-1. 2005

..70, 95% CI 1.34-2.14). Adjusting for paternal occupational social class and birth weight had only a small attenuating effect. Low childhood IQ may have an aetiological role in the development of adult total psychiatric disorder...

Relation between early life socioeconomic position and all cause mortality in two generations. A longitudinal study of Danish men born in 1953 and their parents

Merete OslerDepartment of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 N, DenmarkJ Epidemiol Community Health 59:38-41. 2005

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Income and risk of ischaemic heart disease in men and women in a Nordic welfare country

Merete OslerDepartment of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkPaediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:385-94. 2004

..A questionnaire-based postal follow-up survey is planned. Thus, the Metropolit study provides an important opportunity to examine the processes by which factors that operate over the life course influence adult health...

Social position and functional decline among non-disabled old men and women

Kirsten AvlundDepartment of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkEur J Public Health 14:212-6. 2004

..To examine the relation between different aspects of social position and functional decline at 5 year follow-up in 75 year old men and women...